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Both PSF and PSF2 files contain a header which specifies the type of video game system the file contains data for, and an optional set of tags at the end which can give detailed information such as game name, artist and length.
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GSF players emulate the files as sound-only Game Boy Advance ROMs, and as such can be processor intensive when compared to mainstream audio formats.
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Chang, KyuSik; Kim, GyuBeom; Kim, TaeYong (14–17 August 2007). "Video Game Console Audio: Evolution and Future Trends".
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ripped directly from video games from a variety of video game consoles. The format was originally used for
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audio format developed by Caitsith2 and Zoopd. The basic GSF file structure is a sub-format of PSF.
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Mac/Windows/Linux chiptune player that supports 33 different music formats including PSF1 and PSF2.
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player program. This takes far less space than an equivalent streamed format of the same music (
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capability, wherein data used by multiple tracks is stored only once in an accompanying
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The PSF format was publicly documented by Neill Corlett in 2003, who also wrote a
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plug-in named "Highly Experimental" that plays PSF1 and PSF2 files.
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video games, but has since been adapted to support other systems.
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Linux player that supports playback of PSF1 and PSF2 via plug-in.
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video game. The basic USF file structure is a sub-format of PSF.
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allowing playback of over 40 chiptune and tracker formats
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Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation (CGIV 2007)
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equivalent of a PSF. PSF2 is internally structured as a
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Generally, PSF files contain a number of samples and a
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